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Show BETTER TREATMENT FOR MAIMED YANKS IS .URGED A call to the nation to remombcr Its wounded of tho world war, '20,-000 '20,-000 of whom still llyo, maimed in mind or body nnd, to a great extent forgotten" was sounded last weeb by- Fred W. Gallbralth, of Cincinnati, national commander of tho American Legion, at ArmUtlco day exercises In Boston. Ho asserted that hospital facilities for tho wounded, veterans wero "entirely inadonuatu" adding: j "If "thcro Is adequate treatment bo- . Ing given to these broken boys at any hospital I hnvi) ;'ot to seo It." j Tho army and navy hospitals aro oapablo, the loglon commander said, but added that nearly all tho wounded wound-ed veterans have been removed from theso Institutions. Public health servlco hospitals wero giving tho best treatment possible with' their ' facilities, he continued, but tho num- ' ber of men at theso Institutions was comparatively fow. "Tho wounded men aro being transferred to other places anywhero to get them under cover and. out ot tho way, and their treatment falls' far short of what li their need and their duo," tho loglon lo-glon head declared. ' 'Tho peoplo of tho United States who acclaimed them ns heroos whon they returned ,and tho mon of tho American Legion, who claim thorn as comrades in arms, should Join hands to remedy tho conditions that exist." |